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A decentralised management of an autonomous demand responsive transport mode is considered, where more than one passengers may be associated to a vehicle. No advanced seat reservation is required by clients appearing in the network in a continuous Poisson stream aiming at an immediate departure. A potential waiting time is associated with customers, in case no vehicle is available by their arrival, as well a tolerated trip detour threshold. Meanwhile, vehicles travel on the network transporting passengers while searching for prospective clients. Two different schemes, employing fully autonomous and manually driven cars are considered. A comparative study is presented, quantifying the performance of each structure. Moreover, the efficacy of each vehicle scheme is compared with a similar one employing a greater number of vehicles in service where each vehicle has an increased passenger capacity. Client-vehicle interaction forms an asynchronous, dynamical, spatio-temporal system the evolution of which is represented through an event-driven approach. Client metrics such as client initial waiting time, abandonment rate, trip detours etc. are measured as well vehicle indicators providing information on the vehicle productivity.
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The author is indebted to Professor Guy Cohen for expert advise, guidance, support and all interesting and mostly stimulating discussions concerning this work.
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Lioris, J. (2018). Collective Cars in Cities: Optimal Management in Real Time Through DES Approach. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 597. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60441-1_106
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